After we defeated Wang Shichong with unprecedented unity of thought, Wang Shichong retreated to Luoyang City and refused to go out of the city to face the battle. At the same time, the Sui Dynasty minister Yu Wenshu's son Yu Wenhua staged a coup d'état in Jiangdu and strangled Yang Guang, while Wang Shichong at this time proclaimed Yang Guang's grandson Yang Tong emperor and established a small court in the city of Luoyang.

In March of the fourteenth year of the Great Cause (618 AD), Yu Wenhua and the "Xiaoguo Army" led by 100,000 people approached Luoyang, and at the moment of crisis, Li Mi decided to take us to temporarily ally with Wang Shichong. Li Mi was worshiped by Yang Tong as a lieutenant, and Yang Tong promised that as long as Li Mi defeated Yu Wenji, he would let him enter the Luoyang auxiliary government.

Li Mi had no choice but to use almost all the forces of the Wagang Army to fight Yu Wenhua and the decisive battle.

Before the decisive battle, Li Mi adopted the strategy of a strategist, and was ready to "play" with Yu Wenhua and - he sent someone to pretend to make peace with Yu Wenhua, and took the initiative to give Yu Wenhua and a batch of military rations.

After getting the military rations sent by Li Mi, Yu Wenhua and his "Xiaoguo Army" began to eat freely, and soon ate all the food. In fact, Li Mi's plan is to wait for Yu Wenhua's army and eat the food, and then encircle and annihilate Yu Wenhua, but I didn't expect a very sudden thing to happen at this juncture, breaking Li Mi's plan - an officer of our Wagang Army just committed a crime, he was afraid that Li Mi would be punished, so he defected to Yu Wenhua and there, and the most hateful thing was that he reported all Li Mi's plans to Yu Wenhua, and Yu Wenhua was furious after hearing it, and decided to have a head-on duel with us.

Yu Wenhua led the troops across the Yongji Canal and rushed directly to our main camp, and we hurriedly responded to the battle.

The battle was fierce, and Li Mi was commanding at the front, but he was shot by an arrow and fell off his horse, and our troops began to lose their positions and retreated. At this time, Qin Shubao rushed out first, rescued Li Mi and stabilized the troops, arranged troops to continue to meet Yu Wenhua, and finally defeated the Xiaoguo army.

After the end of this battle, the corpses on the battlefield were piled up, and the blood flowed like a river, which made people panic when they looked at it. Yu Wenhua and the more than 100,000 "Xiaoguo Army" brought, only about 20,000 people remained after the war, and we were also greatly injured, the elite soldiers and horses were killed and wounded, and most of the survivors were rabble.

After the end of the war, Li Mi was originally going to enter Luoyang as an official, but he didn't expect that a coup d'état had already occurred in Luoyang at this time - Wang Shichong killed Yuan Wendu and others, and controlled all the high-level people in Luoyang. In this situation, it is almost impossible to go to Luoyang, and there is an important message at this time: Wang Shichong is planning to serve our Wagang army in one pot.

In response to the next big battle with Wang Shichong, the generals expressed their opinions, Pei Renji analyzed: "We suffered heavy casualties in the battle with Yu Wenhua and the first battle, Wang Shichong will definitely seize this opportunity to attack us, this decisive battle is inevitable, at that time Wang Shichong will definitely lead all the troops, trying to wipe us out, and in this case, Luoyang must be empty, we avoid its edge, and divide a part of the troops to guard the main road that Wang Shichong's army will pass, so that it can not advance eastward." In addition, tens of thousands of elite soldiers were selected to approach the eastern capital. ”

"What is General Pei's intention in arranging this?" Li Mi said, "We don't have many soldiers, wouldn't it be even more vulnerable if we were scattered? ”

"The difference between what Wei Gong said is precisely because the number of our soldiers is not satisfactory, so it is best for us not to fight Wang Shichong head-on. According to my strategy, once Wang Shichong returns to the army, we will not move, and if he sends the army again, we will force the eastern capital again, in this case, we may not only have surplus strength, but also weaken the strength of Wang Shichong's army, they are exhausted, and they will be able to defeat them easily after repeating them a few times. Pei Renji said with confidence.

Li Mi pondered for a moment and said: "General Pei's plan is good, but the army that Wang Shichong arranged to station in the eastern capital has several unstoppable advantages, and the main three advantages are: first, the weapons are excellent, which we cannot compare; Second, the combat intention was resolute and decisive, and if it clashed with the army of the Eastern Capital, the chance of victory was minimal; Thirdly, their fighting spirit is high, and they have little food left, so their fighting spirit is extremely high, and they all think that if they do not fight to the death, they will starve to death, and they all have this thought, if we venture to fight with them, it is tantamount to asking for our own death. ”

The generals looked at Li Mi and asked, "Dare to ask what is Duke Wei's strategy?" ”

"We retreat and seek to advance, hold our city, and retain our strength, in this way, Wang Shichong will not be able to fight if he wants to, and there is no way to retreat if he wants to retreat, so that they will fall into a dilemma, and they will be able to turn defeat into victory in less than ten days."

Wei Zheng agreed with Li Mi's strategy, and praised again and again: "Wei Gong's strategy is excellent, we should indeed stick to the city, and it is really not a wise choice to fight head-on!" ”

The other generals and soldiers were unwilling to do this, and said one after another: "Wang Shichong has been defeated repeatedly, why should Duke Wei be afraid of this defeated general?" We asked to fight, we have accumulated a lot of combat experience in the battle with Wang Shichong's army before, I believe that we can defeat him before, and we can still do it now! ”

"Yes! Wei Gong, please let us fight! The generals of the Xiaoguo Army also said the same.

Seeing that the soldiers were all full of confidence, Li Mi couldn't say anything, and agreed to fight Wang Shichong's army head-on.

Wei Zheng is still vigorously opposed: "We have no chance of winning a head-to-head battle!" We were able to defeat Wang Shichong many times before because we were strong, but now it is completely different, have you forgotten how many troops we lost in the battle with Yu Wenhua and I? Wave after wave, do you still think we have the capital to fight? ”

The soldiers just sarcastically said that Wei Zheng was a cliché, and Wei Zheng was so angry that he walked away.

Since participating in the uprising, I have not been able to go back to visit my family, I don't know how my father, Xin'er and my child Xiaohao are doing now, I really want to write a letter to him, because I have been transferred to the battlefield again and again, it is inconvenient to communicate with my family. After coming to Luoyang, I have not shifted the position, I suddenly wanted to write a letter to home, I looked at the bright moon on the sky, fell into endless melancholy, the moon is big and round, but the moon, or the hometown of Ming!

I couldn't hold back the thought in my heart, so I found a place with fewer people to write a letter—

Xin'er, I'm Xiao Sheng, and I haven't had the opportunity to come back to accompany you since I joined the rebel army, I'm really sorry. Fighting again and again, physically and mentally exhausted. Xin'er, I miss you so much, I'm not at home, my father and mother are old and in poor health, Xiaohao is too young, everything has to rely on you, it's really hard for you. I should be able to go home after this battle, and we'll be ......

I can't help choking up when I write it, the feeling of homesickness is really uncomfortable, it's been really hard for her all these years, she has to worry about everything, and she will definitely compensate her twice as much after going back this time!

In September, Wang Shichong's army camped in the south of Tongji Canal, and it seemed that a major battle between our Wagang army and Wang Shichong's army was about to break out. It is said that before this, Wang Shichong was worried that the army was not aligned, and specially made a "absurd" witchcraft show, saying that he had a dream, in the dream Zhou Gong told him some strange things, for this reason, he also pretended to send people to build Zhou Gong Temple by Luoshui, and found a wizard to do it, the wizard told everyone that Zhou Gong was very optimistic about their general Wang Shichong, and this time the battle would be won, but if they didn't go to war, then a devastating disaster would break out here, and they all had to die in this disaster. It just so happened that almost all the people in Wang Shichong's army were superstitious people, so they were so delicious that they were panicked when they heard these words, so they all said that they wanted to fight to the death, so that the morale of Wang Shichong's army rose sharply, and this situation was quite unfavorable to us!

Wang Shichong first sent hundreds of cavalry to attack Shan Xiongxin's army stationed in the north of Yanshi City, and he didn't know whether the opponent was too strong or Shan Xiongxin's foreign horse army was too weak, and was defeated by hundreds of cavalry.

The tentative first battle beat us into a bad situation, which not only boosted the fighting spirit of Wang Shichong's army, but also greatly extinguished our arrogance.

Subsequently, Wang Shichong launched a real decisive battle, at dawn, Wang Shichong menacingly led the army to launch a fierce attack on us, Li Mi, who has always been cautious, was particularly arrogant in the face of Wang Shichong, and even did not arrange people to fortify the outer walls of the camp, plus they attacked too quickly, we were forced to meet the battle before we had time to arrange the troops, and the situation can be imagined.

Just when our two armies were fighting fiercely, there was a sound of "Li Mi was captured", and then Wang Shichong's army made a cheerful sound of harmony, and later we did see a person who looked like Li Mi was captured alive by Wang Shichong's army, and the commander was arrested, so we naturally had no time to fight. At this moment, about 200 ambush soldiers suddenly rushed out of the valley of the Beibi Mountain, and they set fire to our military camp, and we were crushed and fled.

Recall that our army had already lost a lot in the battle with Yu Wenhua and that battle, this time the enemy won and I lost, plus other reasons, in this decisive battle killed and surrendered countless people, Li Mi led us to flee to Luokoucang, during which several successive big battles and small battles also ended in our defeat, and Luokoucang finally fell into the hands of Wang Shichong.

In the first battle of Bishan, our Wagang army lost its soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of "remnant soldiers and crab generals" were captured and surrendered, and I once again escaped from death, but became a fugitive in embarrassment, I don't know whether to be happy or sad.